So, I was curious as to why all the space station interiors are pretty much the same even with the update adding what Hello Games described as being “vastly different from station to station”.

The answer that seemed most prominent is that people get lost and frustrated inside space stations. So Hello Games makes it the same so people don’t get lost.

Do you find it hard to navigate space stations to the point where they have to be laid out roughly the same exact way? Or are you able to pretty much get your bearings in a game in a few minutes of exploring?

Coming from games like WoW where capital cities provide similar services with vastly different architecture and layout, I just find it hard to believe that a game full of explorers can’t navigate the tiny space station without getting frustratingly lost or turned around.

I needed cadmium for my first hyperdrive upgrade. I looked online and saw that cadmium was found on planets that orbit red stars. I opened the galaxy map and swapped filters to get a nice black background instead of the hazy red nebula that I was in to help me spot red stars. Every time I flew to a red star, it wouldn’t be red. Time after time after time I would warp and sigh because it wasn’t what I was looking for. For 4 hours over 2 days I searched for a red star. I found every color imaginable and saw some very cool planets, but no cadmium. I thought that maybe the systems were color coded in a different way so I googled how to find red stars in No Man’s Sky. There were no helpful results. Because nobody else had been so stupid.

After 5 hours searching I realized that I had been flipping the filter to “lifeform” to get rid of the red haze which changed the colors of the stars. According to the Steam achievement I ended up warping to more systems than 84% of players ever had. When I left the filter off I found cadmium on my first try.

I don’t even know how to feel. I’m glad I got cadmium but I am reconsidering if I’m cut out for space exploration.